Theaters of Error Problems of Performance in German and French Enlightenment Theater /

• Main Author: LaFountain, Pascale (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Performing arts.; Theater.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Theatre History.; Performing Arts.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophical, legal, and medical discourses, it tracks the rel...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Locating and Performing Error
• 2. Error Control in Eighteenth-Century German and French Acting Theory
• 3. Acting, Error, and the Art of Lying in Lessing's Work
• 4. Encyclopedias of Error: Diderot's Medicalized Bodies and Communication
• 5. Beyond Sin: Physiologies of Error in Schiller and La Mettrie
• 6. Legal Fallibility and the Drama of Evidence in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist
• 7. Conclusion.